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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1385-1456, 1558-1633
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Fourscore, -scoir, n. Also: fowrescore, fourscor, fourescoir, fourschoir. [ME. four score, fowre score (c 1250).]
1. Eighty. (Sometimes const. of)1385 Red Bk. Menteith II. 262.
The yher of hour lorde a thowsand thre hundyr fourscor and fyve 1456 Hay I. 38/6.
Efter the creacioun of the warld, four thousand four hundred fourscore and four ȝeris c1420 Ratis Raving 1671.
Fra that fourscore of ȝeris be past 1562-3 Winȝet I. 47.
The buke of four scoir thre questions 1570 Three Reformers 26.
He left to Patrik Scheves … foure scoir merkis a1578 Pitsc. II. 136/7.
I ame fourescoir of ȝeiris by-gaine 1608–9 Misc. Spald. C. V. 83.
For fourscoir of ait breid 1633 Ib. III. 98.
He haid upliftit … fyftie merkis of the soume of fourscoir merkis
2. Eightieth.1558-66 Knox I. 465.
Johnne Knox preached aud entreated the 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 versicules of the fourscoir psalme